Despite our prevailing climate, Scotland has a surprsingly long history and abundance of sundials going back to the 16th Century. This includes obelisk sundials, which are unique to Scotland.
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A rain-soaked early 19th Century sundial in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens.
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The magnificent sundial in King's Park in Glasgow. Dating from 1885, it's a replica of one originally made in 1635 and which is located in Newbattle Abbey House in Midlothian.
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The sundial in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. Despite our prevailing climate, Scotland has a surprsingly long history of sundials going back to the 16th Century. This includes obelisk sundials, which are unique to Scotland.
#glasgow #sundial #botanicgardens #scottishsundials #glasgowbotanicgardens
Such a great use of this tech. So many possibilities, like a mini Asknish House sundial 😍 #ScottishSundials
In the old building on this very site lived Hugh Rodger, Schoolmaster of Kirkoswald who tutored Robert Burns on the ‘Art of Dialing’ or making sundials
Burns writes that he “made pretty good progress but made greater progress on the Knowledge of Mankind” #BurnsNight #ScottishSundials
Baluster sundial at Newbattle Abbey made in 1635 for the Earl and Countess of Lothian
In the same style as the Douglas Castle sundial, now residing at King's Park in Glasgow and the Saughton Park sundial which was part of the designed landscape at the 17th C Saughton Villa #ScottishSundials
Many, like this one, have multiple dials and gnomons (the bit which casts the shadow used to tell the time), and were probably designed more to be decorative than functional.
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The magnificent sundial in King's Park in Glasgow. Dating from 1885, it's a replica of one originally made in 1635 and which is located in Newbattle Abbey House in Midlothian.
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#glasgow #kingspark #sundial #scottishsundials #sculpture #publicart #architecture
